Jewelry



No Model.) GREBENAU.

JEWELRY. No. 324,681. Patented Aug. 18, 1885.

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NIIE STA'rEs LEOPOLD G-REBENAU, OF STAPLETON, NEWV YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,681, dated August 18, 1885.

Application filed March 12, 1861). (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD GREBENAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stapleton, in the county of Richmond and State f New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Jewelry, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of jewelry; and it consists in a blank for lockets, buttons, bracelets, and the like, part of the face of which is perfectly plain, while the other part is ornamented or pierced in any desired manner, the two halves being separated by two raised ledges which form settings for precious stones, or which are adapted to receive a wire.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a face view of a locket-blank illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal cross-section of the same.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter Adesignates onehalf of a locket of elliptical form; but the same can be made in any other shape which may be required. In the manufacture of these lockcts a plate is rolled in a mill or struck up in dies of any desired shape so as to leave about one halt, a, of the same perfectly plain or smooth, and the remaining part, b, is ornamented in any manner or style, either flat, raised, pierced, or any combination of the said method of ornamentation. Between the two parts a b is a raised portion consisting of two ledges, c d, which form asetting for precious stones 6 of any description.

Instead of using the aforesaid stones 6, the setting may-be filled by a round orsquare wire secured therein.

Instead of forming the ledges c d in the pro cess of striking out the blank, the same may be cut separately and then soldered or otherwise secured to the blank.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A blank for a locket, button, or the like, part of the face of which is perfectly plain. while the other part is ornamented or pierced in any desired manner, the two parts being separated by two raised ledges forming set.- tings.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEOPOLD GREBENAU. n s.]

.Vitnesses:

. A. FABER DU FAUR, Jr.

E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

